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Morton Wolin:
"This very day I
remember; this very
day I will not forget."

of them, both for what they
endured and how they came
out of it."

T

he issue tonight is
the business of
book making.
Members of the ...
And So We Must Remember
committee — all volunteers,
many ready to donate their
own money if funds run out
for the project — sit in a liv-
ing room in Huntington
Woods. The room is large
and airy; the coffee is hot
and plentiful.
Among the items still to
be addressed: how many
copies to print, which paper
stock to use for the pages
and the cover, which quotes
to put on the book jacket.
Every subject receives
careful attention. No one
runs out of patience when

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992

several committee members
discuss, at length, whether
the cover should have a mat-
te or a glossy finish. Every-
one seems to understand
that this is no ordinary
book, but a project of sacred
memory.
"Do you think these mar-
gins are large enough?" one
member asks.
Laura Sacks Kohn is co-
ordinator of the book. She
met up with Howard Kloc
soon after he returned from
speaking with his mother in
Florida. That's when the

idea for ... And So We Must
Remember came about.
"We had all these Holo-
caust stories, and survivors
who are old," she said. "I be-
lieve those of us hearing and
inheriting the stories have
an awesome responsibility
to continue and safeguard
them."
So a group, drawing mem-
bers from the temple's social
action committee, was
formed to work on the pro-
ject. Letters soliciting man-
uscripts were mailed out.
Anyone who had been

touched by the Holocaust
was invited to send a sub-
mission.
"At first, it was hard to
get responses," Mrs. Kohn
said. But then one came in,
and then another and an-
other. Often, the manu-
scripts offered remarkable
detail. "And it seems like a
lot of people were saying
things for the first time."
Mrs. Kohn's husband,
Martin, edited the manu-
scripts. Other volunteers in-
cluded Howard Kloc's wife,
Elli, who did all the word

processing, and George Erd-
stein, who designed the cov-
er. The rabbi's discretionary
fund will pay for the first
500 copies of ... And So We
Must Remember.
The final version of the
book is hundreds of pages
long, with at least a page or
two from everyone who sent
a submission — and even an
account from one who did
not.
Mrs. Kohn was deter-
mined to include writings
from a survivor who was
particularly dear to her: the
late Rabbi Frank Rosenthal
of Temple Emanu-El.
"When I was 5, I fell in
love with him," she said.
"Though he had come
through such painful expe-
riences, he had a real zeal
for his faith."
It took a little searching,

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